Agrupación Deportiva Ceuta Fútbol Club is a Spanish

football team A football team is a group of players selected to play together in the various team sports known as football. Such teams could be selected to play in a match against an opposing team, to represent a football club, group, state or nation, an all-s ...

based in the autonomous city of

Ceuta Ceuta (, , ; ar, سَبْتَة, Sabtah) is a Spanish autonomous city on the north coast of Africa. Bordered by Morocco, it lies along the boundary between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It is one of several Spanish territori ...

. Founded in 1956, it plays in Primera División RFEF – Group 1, holding home matches at ''

Estadio Alfonso Murube Estadio Alfonso Murube is a football stadium in the autonomous city of Ceuta, Spain in Northern Africa. It is the home stadium of AD Ceuta FC, who currently play in Segunda División B - Group 4, with a capacity of 6,500 seats. The stadium was ...

'' with a capacity of 6,500 seats''.''

History

The club was found in 1956, after a merger between Sociedad Deportiva Ceuta and

Atlético Tetuán Club Atlético Tetuán was a Spanish football club based in Tétouan, Spanish protectorate of Morocco. The club played a single season in La Liga in 1951–52, after winning the Segunda División Southern Zone in 1950–51. This ended in rel ...

, under the name of ''Club Atlético de Ceuta''. It eventually took the place of Tetuán in

Segunda División The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Segunda División, commercially known as LaLiga SmartBank for sponsorship reasons, is the men's second professional association football division of the Spanish football league system. Administrated by the L ...

, remaining in the category for six campaigns. After a one-year spell in

Tercera División Tercera División ( en, Third Division) was the fourth tier of the Spanish football league system. Founded in 1929, it was below the ''Primera División'' (also known as La Liga), the '' Segunda División'', and the semi-professional '' Segunda ...

, Atlético Ceuta returned to the second level and enjoyed a further five seasons before suffering relegation in 1968. The club subsequently fluctuated between the fourth and fifth levels, staying in the former for a short amount of time. After being promoted to the fourth division in 2012 due to an administrative relegation, Atlético Ceuta tried to merge with

AD Ceuta Asociación Deportiva Ceuta was a Spanish football team based in the autonomous city of Ceuta. Founded in 1996, its last season was 2011–12 in Segunda División B, holding home matches at ''Estadio Alfonso Murube'', with a capacity of 6,500. ...

. However, due to the latter's high debts, the club remained under the same name, but with the staff and players of the ''Agrupación Deportiva''. In 2013, the club was officially named Agrupación Deportiva Ceuta Fútbol Club, inheriting AD Ceuta's colours and logo.

Club background

*''Ceuta Sport Club'' — (1932–41); renamed in 1941 to ''Sociedad Deportiva Ceuta'' *'' Sociedad Deportiva Ceuta'' — (1941–56); in 1956 merged with the Spanish elements of Club Atlético Tetuán to form '' Club Atlético de Ceuta''

Club naming

*''Club Atlético de Ceuta (1956–92)'' *''Ceuta Atlético Club (1992-94)'' *''Club Atlético de Ceuta (1994-2012)'' *''Asociación Deportiva Atlético de Ceuta (2012-13)'' *''Agrupación Deportiva Ceuta Fútbol Club (2013–present)''

Other clubs from Ceuta

*''Club Deportivo Imperio de Ceuta'' — (1958–) *'' Agrupación Deportiva Ceuta'' — ''(1969–91)'' *''Club Ceutí Atlético'' – ''(1996–97)'' *'' Asociación Deportiva Ceuta'' (1997–2012)

Season to season

As Club Atlético de Ceuta

As Agrupación Deportiva Ceuta Fútbol Club

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*1 season in

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*1 season in Segunda División RFEF *18 seasons in

Current squad

Youth players

References

External links

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